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finding it in Short-horns, I have resorted to the Dutch, and 

 procured a pure-bred bull and heifer, from which I hope to 

 rear a herd worthy any one's care and pride. 



These improvements have extended over the time I have 

 occupied the farm (except one year, during which I was dis- 

 abled), and a due proportion of these improvements have 

 been accomplished within the last three years ; for instance, 

 one hundred rods of wall laid, four acres of pasture re- 

 claimed, fifty rods of old wall and hedge removed, beside 

 some minor matters. My stock of cattle consists of one pair 

 of oxen, a bull and stag, twenty cows and heifers giving milk 

 or suckling calves, twelve heifers not in milk, eight calves, 

 tw\) horses, one two-year-old colt, three breeding sows, one 

 boar, and two pigs. My crops for the year are as follows : 

 Eighty tons of hay; six tons of rowen; corn-fodder, two 

 acres ; barley, fifty bushels ; oats, two hundred and fifty 

 bushels ; corn, three hundred and twenty bushels ; potatoes, 

 one hundred bushels ; apples, two hundred barrels ; cider- 

 apples, six hundred bushels ; beans, ten bushels ; turnips 

 (Swedes), four hundred bushels (flat), six hundred. My 

 dairy being in a transition state from grade Short-horn to 

 grade Dutch, I am using mostly heifers, and have not my 

 usual number, nor usual quantity of milk. From Nov. 1, 

 1877, to Nov. 1, 1878, the weight of milk made was 87,306 

 pounds, beside bringing up eight calves. I have sold four 

 thousand pounds of beef; expect to turn off five hundred 

 pounds more during winter. Calves sold to amount of thirty 

 dollars; pigs, to amount of eighty-eight dollars. I do not 

 fatten much pork for market, eight hundred pounds being 

 the extent this year. Other and minor sources of income 

 from the farm, such as chickens, eggs, service of bull, hire of 

 oxen, &c., amount to one hundred and fifty dollars. Wages 

 paid to hired help during entire year three hundred dollars. 

 While I do not imagine the farm by any means finished, I 

 do think I have made many solid improvements on the farm 

 and its appointment and the stock. 



Baerk, 1878. 



